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Noel Sharkey, electricians apprentice, factory worker, psychiatric nurse, rock musician,

and doctor of psychology. And all this before he found his true love robots.

At the start getting a robot to travel down a corridor felt like a minor miracle.

Since then he's programmed robots to steal from and feed on his a In the

19-Shaki was a fully signed-up artificial intelligence enthusiast. Now he thinks AI is a dangerous dream.

In the 21st century, robots are doing more and more of our dirty work, both at home and at war. If current trends continue, robots

probably won't take over the world, but they will be given ever greater responsibility.

Now Ashaki, welcome to the life scientific. You are worried

about some of the uses robots are being put to, aren't you? Yes, I'm very concerned. But some of the uses I see

is great uses, but I concerned about but uses in policing and

particularly in the military really in elder care in child care.

Surely no one's suggesting that a child could be looked after and brought up by a robot?

Yes they are in fact yes. We found we wrote a big paper on it and we found 14 companies

in South Korea and Japan that were actually building

child care robots so that was one of my first big concerns and although I love the

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